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Finnish
Verb
jiähä
- Dialectal form of jäädä
Karelian
Verb
jiähä
- To stay.
Livvi
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *jäädäk. Cognates include Finnish jäädä and Estonian jääda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjiæ̯hæ/
- Hyphenation: jiä‧hä
Verb
jiähä
- (intransitive) to stay
- (intransitive) to lag behind
- (intransitive, + allative) to lag (behind)
References
- Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 81